264 LAW3 OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 155.
Passed March 24, 1865.	1 AN ACT to amend and re-enact sections thirty- three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of Article eighty-one of the Code of Public General Laws entitled, "Revenues and Taxes," and relating to the appointment of and the bonds to be given by the Collectors of State taxes:
Sections amended and re-enacted.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As em- bly of Maryland, That sections thirty-three, thirty- four, thirty-five, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of Article eighty-one of the Code of Public General Laws entitled, "Revenues and Taxes," and relat- ing to the appointment of, and the bonds to be given by the Collectors of State taxes, be amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
Collector and State tax.	33. The County Commissioners in the several counties, and the Mayor and City Council of Bal- timore, shall on the first Tuesday in April, in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, appoint a Collector or Collectors for their respective coun- ties, and at least one Collector for each Legislative District of the said city, for the collection of taxes levied or to be levied for the current year, and it shall not be lawful for the local authorities of said counties or the municipal authorities of said city, to provide any fixed annual or other stated com- pensation for the collection of the State taxes, or a compensation or salary of any kind to the said Collectors for their services in collecting the State taxes, otherwise than by a per centum on the amount of their collections as contemplated in the seventy-fifth section of this Article.
To give bond.	34. Every Collector of city or county taxes, be- fore he acts as such shall give bond to the State of Maryland, in a penalty of double the amount of such tax to be collected by him, with good and sufficient securities, to be approved in the several counties by the County Commissioners, and in the city of Baltimore, by the Mayor and President of both Branches of the City Council, or any two of them, the Mayor being one, with condition